PIMPPA is a tool to loot binaries from newsgroups.
Edit by : PIMPPA is a tool to loot binaries from newsgroups (and FTP sites, but the ftp support is probably deprecated). PIMPPA tries to achieve complete hands free -operation where possible. The system is best suited for the Connoisseur, the Collector and the Worshipper of the Mighty Crond.

Current features

* Attempts to skip duplicates and spam before downloading actual messages.
* Further duplicate discarding based on FileNames & MD5 -checksums.
* Allows user-definable, content-based pruning scripts for even more involved discarding.
* Intelligent MultiPart handling, downloads only complete postings.
* Supports multiple newsservers.
* Filename-based sorting of accepted files to proper directories.
* Can be used to hunt known file series, extensions or message subject patterns and skip the rest.
* Supports automatic file integrity testing and transformation.
* Several tools and scripts for file maintenance and viewing.
* Knowledge is kept in SQL database, making it relatively easy for you to write your own custom scripts and utilities.
* Cronable: come back next week to check the filtered catch.
* Optional GNOME GUI (shell-use recommended).
* Its free! - GPLed Open Source. you can free download PIMPPA 0.6.0 now.